Previously, Oxley signal box controlled the depot access and sidings until it closed on 27 November 2010 under the West Midlands Resignalling scheme.

In GWR days, until the 1960s it formed part of an important main line route from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside.

From December 2014 to June 2024, Avanti West Coast (formerly Virgin Trains) ran a daily return services between Shrewsbury and London Euston calling at Wellington and Telford Central.

Between 2012 and 2015, the power station was converted to run on biomass which was supplied mostly via Liverpool Docks by GBRf trains until closure of the plant in November 2015.

Currently the only rail business to and from the site is Ministry of Defence traffic[11] which runs down from Warrington so only uses a brief portion of the line between Shrewsbury and Wellington.